Krogan was completely shocked about what just happened, Skullcrusher had just entered most powerful man flying at about 100 mph.
"No," he said. "He defeated us, he's not any weaker at all." His eyes then turned the gigantic hole in the ceiling. 'He sent Red Death flying as if he was nothing. This is impossible.'
In the mountains alone, Astrid and Ingrid had been completely caught unaware as a bill and had managed to grab Clueless while their backs were turned. He was now extending Clueless in the air by the helm of his shirt.
"Get your hands up," he ordered. "And no powers, got it? Use your powers and I will kill your friend here."
"Clueless is helpless," said Astrid.
"Damn, villain," Ingrid cursed. "He totally caught us with our pants down. I thought that electric blast would have tried them all, we're so stupid. How did we not see this coming?"
"I feel a little brother that would bellow electric types so I don't want to kill him, but I will let you make me," he said extending his hand forward and shooting a bit of electricity from his palm.
It finally all makes sense and Astrid and Ingrid immediately raised their hands up in surrender.
"An electric type," said Astrid. "He's probably the one that Ranger said there was jamming our communications."
Satisfied the villain slowly approached them. "Don't move a muscle. Let's take this nice and slow."
Ingrid then got an idea. "You know, you two dudes are so lucky," she said. "People with electric types powers are destined for mainstream success."
The villain frowned at her by the compliment.
"What are you doing?" Astrid whispered.
"I mean even if you didn't want to be a hero there are tons of jobs you can do in the city," Ingrid continued and began to lower her earphone down behind her back. "You're kind of power is in high demand. So I'm wondering why would you become a villain in the first place?"
Astrid immediately understood her attempt. 'I see, Ingrid can attack without moving if she can manage to get her earphone jack plugged in.'
"You don't have to do and so I just thought it might just be interesting to know," said Ingrid just inches away from jacking her earphone.
Then immediately the villain flared electricity from his hand and immediately the two girls panicked. "Nice try, think you can distract me that easily."
With no other choice Ingrid was forced to retract her earphone and realise that she had just made the situation even worse.
"Big mistake sweetheart," said the villain. "I'm not some dumb that can be outsmarted by a couple of kids. You need to learn to take hostage situations seriously." As he toured Astrid noted that some of the villains were beginning to stir and the villain in front of them was now looking quite murderous. "So here's the new deal. Either this kid is going to die or you are, how about that? You can save either his life or your own." He laughed as he slowly approached them. "Now, what is it going to be girlies?"
Hiccup and the others were watching the stand-off between Skullcrsuher and Krogan remaining forces.
Krogan narrowed his eyes at Skullcrusher. 'What's going on here? He's just as strong as he's always been. Dammit, clearly he was mistaken.'
"What's wrong?" said Skullcrusher with an air of confidence. "Not attacking me? Didn't you say you were going to kill me earlier? Well come and get me, if you dare."
"Man, this is intense," said Snotlout.
"As I expected, there's no reason for us to fight now, he'll handle this," said Ranger.
Ragnar nodded and looked at Hiccup. "Hiccup we should regroup with the other guys, the last thing we want to do is get taken hostage or get in his way."
Toothless then contacted Hiccup on his private channel. 'Hiccup, Stoick's vitals of the chart, he seriously pushed himself very hard. I extremely doubt that he has the strength to cave on fighting.'
Hiccup agreed. 'He's bluffing, I can tell just by looking at him that he completely worn out. He's used as much time as he can spare and I'm willing to bet those last few attacks merely drained him.'
Skullcrusher can barely move an inch. 'Crap, I can't fight them. That Red Death guy took too much out of me. I can barely make another move, I can't keep this up much longer. I just have to stall until they get here.'
Skullcrusher gave them a forceful glare. "What? Are you scared?"
Krogan and Ryker looked extremely uneasy. 'They're hesitating, maybe this will work. They are so close to surrendering or at least running away.'
Krogan clenched his fists. "How could this have happened? We've lost our best gun and help is on the way!"
However, Viggo looks completely calm. "Krogan, there is no need to panic." He then looked directly at Skullcrusher. "Look at him, he has definitely weakened. Red Death's attacks were successful."
Krogan then and clenched his fists.
Ryker then looked at Hiccup and the others. "He's right, he's on his own. And the children look to be completely frozen in terror." His eyes then turned to the villains to beginning to stir. "And our underlings are recovering."
Viggo nodded. "We likely still have a few minutes before their reinforcements arrive. If the three of us work together, we can do this, we haven't missed our chance to kill Skullcrusher."
A smile then crept on Krogan's face. "Yes, you're right. This is it, we have no choice we have to do it now. This may be our only chance to kill him and I have no intention of wasting the opportunity."
Hiccup and the others the notice the villains were approaching them.
Ragnar looked at Snotlout. "I think your uncle can hold his own against those three maniacs. Let's make sure these guys don't hurt anyone else."
Rangers then looked at Hiccup who was still looking at his father. "Will you be joining us?"
Hiccup have thought of his own. 'I'm the only one who knows what is happening. There's no way you can move faster than Ryker now. He has gone way beyond his limits, there's no question on that. There's no way to defend himself against those three villains, he's done… unless I act now.'
Krogan then charged at Skullcrusher. 'So this is it,' said Skullcrusher to himself.
"This is the end for you Skullcrusher!" Krogan roared.
'This is bad,' said Skullcrusher barely able to clench his fist. Viggo and Ryker then jumped into action. 'Where is everyone? I need backup.'
Then suddenly appearing directly in front of them was Hiccup.
Everyone was completely surprised by this, including Hiccup.
'My jets are off-line, but I was able to tell myself forwards,' said Hiccup in confusion. He then shook his head. 'I've got no time to worry about that, I'm the only one who knows how much trouble my father is in.'
He then raised his hand and formed a plasma last within his palms. 'The moment I find this plasma blast my armour will run out of power. Only got one shot and I've got to make it count.'
Ryker then immediately formed a warp gate in front of them. "Did you forget I'm able to create gates? There's no way you can hit us boy."
"Whoever said I was going to hit you," said Hiccup.
He then slammed a plasma blast right down into the ground creating a massive shock wave that pushed Krogan, Viggo and Ryker back. Hiccup then landed on the ground are completely devoid of power and he turned towards the villains as they pick themselves up from the surprise attack.
"You miserable pest," Kroga roared. "You think that pushing us back is going to stop us!"
He then extended his hand forward and then suddenly there was a gunshot and a bullet went straight through his hand. Immediately everyone turned to where the gunshot originated from.
"They're here," said Skullcrusher in relief.
Standing on the steps was the pro dressed as a cowboy, he was called Sniper. He had the ability of controlling any projectile defined, this meant that he was a dab hand with a gun and was one of the few heroes that use them. He immediately turned his eyes and fired several shots at the electric bill and that was holding Clueless.
The shot grazed the villains' shoulders and he was forced to release Clueless. Astrid and Ingrid were completely taken by surprise by this as did the villains that have pick themselves up.
"What in the name of Thor just happened?" Ingrid stared.
Astrid then turned towards the entrance. "Is it them?"
All the villains were now turning up towards the stairs and they could all hear a voice of the principal.
"I'm sorry everyone," said Dustin. "I know we're a bit late, but I got all the teachers over here as fast as I could."
"Just on the neck of time," said Fishlegs.
Speedfist had returned and with him one of the school faculty members which was a great relief on everyone.
"I got here as quickly as I could and I brought some reinforcements," Speedfist smiled gesturing to the faculty members.
Despite knowing that they were outmatched the villas immediately fired upon the faculty members, but Throk stepped calmly forward towards the stairs. He then fired a powerful sonic street that deafened most of the villains.
Then a teacher will wearing a blue mask and a code stepped forward. His name was Multiple Man and he had the ability of producing a strange form of ectoplasm that was able to produce clones of himself. He opened his mouth and immediately unleashed a barrage of enterprise with immediately took his form. They charge of the deafened villains and took them out easily before any of them had a chance to defend themselves.
"Our priorities to protect all our students," said Dustin.
"Yes, sir," said the teachers.
Krogan was clutching his hand at the saw explosion is happening near the Plaza and was utterly furious.
"Damn it, the pros I hear," he cursed. "There's no way we can win this now, we need to head back to our HQ and—"
Sniper then quickly fired several shots which went straight through his legs and arm. Viggo quickly stepped forward and created an energy shield protecting them.
"We need someone who can capture them from a distance," said Sniper as he kept on firing at the shield.
"I'm on it," said a voice.
Viggo looked at Ryker. "Ryker, we need an escape route."
"Understood," said Ryker as he created warp gates and began a transport them away. However then suddenly he felt himself being pulled in the opposite direction and he recognised the force behind it. "This is… Black Hole."
Black Hole, who has been supported by both Calder and Tuffnut, have extended her right arm and lowered her fingertips. She was now creating a powerful vortex to absorb Ryker making it very difficult for him to maintain the warp gates.
With an unmeasurable amount of will, Ryker was able to maintain the war gay just long enough for all of them to escape.
Krogan then turned to Skullcrusher and his head was slowly beginning to be absorbed inside the warp gate.
"I may have failed to kill you this time, but your days are numbered! This is not over, Skullcrusher, I will kill you!" Krogan roared before he was completely absorbed by the warp gate.
The moment the warp gate disappeared Black Hole deactivated her powers knowing there was no point.
Afterwards the teachers began to span across the entire facility rounding up the villains that had been left behind and helping out the stranded students. On that day the students have learned what pros could do and what they fought against in order to keep them all safe. It was something they were ill-prepared for, but somehow they all managed to survive.
Hiccup was finding it very difficult to move with his armour now out of power. "Man, I really got to fix the energy problem with my armour," he said wincing.
"You did succeed in assisting me though," said his father.
Hiccup turned and found that his father had now completely collapsed, lying face first into the ground. He was still conscious, although barely and looked immensely exhausted from a fight.
"You bought me some very vital seconds, if not for that I would be dead now," said his father with a smile. "Son, you saved me yet again and this time without a high-tech computer."
Hiccup stared at him. "Thanks. Dad."
On the stairs the teachers were examining the damage across the facility and the number villains had managed to sneak in.
"Well, may, may, may," said Sniper.
Midnight looked troubled. "I cannot believe we let them escape after everything they did here."
"They did catch it completely off guard," Dustin admitted. "For now we need to make sure all the students are okay."
Ranger noted that all the teachers had shown up. "If all the pro teachers have gathered that means the rest of the school is safe. The villains attacked this facility, but not the rest of the campus."
Ragnar was quickly making his way over to Hiccup. "Hiccup!" he yelled.
Hiccup turned his head. "Sorry, I can't get up my armour is out of power."
"Don't worry I'll get you," said Ragnar.
Skullcrusher smiled. 'It's nice to see that Hiccup has made some very good friends. Ragnar is certainly a very caring young man will certainly make a great hero someday.' His eyes then widened in horror. 'Oh, crap, wait, if he comes over here he's going to learn my secret.'
Hiccup's eyes widened when he realised this and quickly turned to Ragnar. "Don't worry, I'm fine I just had a few minutes to recharge."
Ragnar gave him a puzzled look then suddenly the ground in front of them rose upwards blocking his sight of vision. He turned and saw very muscular man with grey skin looking at him, he knew him instantly as Cementoss. He had the ability to manipulate cement into any form that he deemed fit which meant he was quite powerful in cities.
"Apologies, but for your safety please stay back, young man," he said. "Join your classmates at the front gate, leave the injured to us we can take care of them."
Ragnar nodded. "Yes, sir." He then made his way over to Snotlout and Ranger. "Guys, he said, for all of us to head to the entrance."
Hiccup and Skullcrusher gave a sigh of relief and Skullcrusher turned to look at Cementoss as he approached them.
"Thanks for that, I owe one," he said.
Cementoss smiled. "My pleasure, I'm actually a big fan of yours. Anyway we should sneak you out of here and get you to nurse's office, Skullcrusher." He then looked at Hiccup. "As we you young man the moment are armies were charged you can join your classmates. I believe that the police wish to question every one of you students."
Cementoss then looked at Skullcrusher. "You should approach yourself so hard, you endangered yourself and the students."
"I had to act recklessly or else we would have all been dead," said Skullcrusher. "It just shows how strong those villains were."
In Washington DC, in a small bar called the Dragon Hunter, Ryker's warp gate appeared and he along with his brother and Krogan emerged from it. Krogan found himself unable to move in line against the flow as he bled out.
"I've been shot in both arms and legs, all our underlings wiped out and even Red Death was beaten," Krogan roared in frustration. "We failed, those kids were so strong and the Symbol of Peace wasn't weakened at all." He then looked at the TV. "You wrong my Lord, very wrong indeed."
"No, I wasn't," said a booming voice from the TV. No one could see who was talking as it was only sound only, but he was clearly the mastermind of the League of Villains. "We just weren't prepared as we should have been."
"I agree," said a grouchy voice. "We underestimated them, thankfully we failed under that cheap League of Villains sketch and not our own. What about the creature the master and I created, where is Red Death."
"Yes, why is he not with you?" said the first voice.
"He was blown away," said Viggo.
"What?" the second voice roared.
"It was Skullcrusher's doing," Viggo explained.
"Without precise coordinates to his precise location I could create a warp gate to bring him here," Ryker explained.
"We didn't had any time to search for him," Viggo added.
"This is a travesty!" said the second voice. "And after everything we did to make as powerful as Skullcrusher."
"Well, I suppose it can't be helped," said the first voice. "Unfortunately."
"We also discovered that Skullcrusher had a son," said Krogan.
"Really?"
"It appears that he and Technora were romantically involved," said Viggo hands behind his back. "This boy was very impressive, intelligent and certainly courageous. He has certainly inherited his mother's powers and I'm suspecting he might have his father's as well judging from the way that he jumped at us without using any propulsion from his armour. If he hadn't gotten in our way, we might have been able to kill the Symbol of Peace."
"I see," said the first voice. "At least the mission wasn't entirely futile, we have learned many things. Gather the villainous elite, take all the time you need I must remain hidden in the shadows which is why I need you to be my face. A symbol of your own, Krogan next time you will show the world that it should be afraid of you."
The police had arrived at the B.A.R.F and had started gathering all the villains inside. The detective was counting the students to make sure they were completely safe. The detective was quite large with a ragged beard and was missing a few teeth.
"16, 17 18, 19, 20," he countered. "Well, all of you seem to be all right."
Helga then placed a hand on Sven's shoulder. "Hey, Sven. I heard you were really good fighter, I had no idea you were so strong."
"Well, me and Olaf had defeat our enemies with hit-and-run attacks," said Sven. "So where did you and fighting Helga?"
"The landslide zone," she said pointing at Ranger. "You wouldn't believe how strong Ranger was, he's amazing."
"You don't say, well I'm just glad he didn't get hurt."
Ranger was completely taken by surprise by this. 'I didn't even know she was there, I could have frozen her.'
"So you guys use space were also low-level thugs," said Dogsbreath looking at Ragnar and Clueless.
"Yeah, it was easy for us to take them down," Ragnar nodded.
"I'm just amazed that Skullcrusher was able to put that hole in the dome after all," said Tuffnut.
"Now that took some hard core power," said Calder.
Astrid then looked at Hiccup. "So not only do you have a famous mother, but you have a famous father."
Hiccup looked uneasy. "I didn't want people to judge me because of my heritage."
Astrid looked at him curiously. "I suppose I can understand that and it's only explained your leadership skills."
The detected then approached Hiccup. "Son, your father is recovering at the nurse's office in the campus. One of my officers will escort you there immediately."
Hiccup nodded. "Thank you, sir."
They then all watched as Hiccup walked away following an officer to a police car.
The detective then looked at the other students. "As for the rest of you will be heading back to the main campus, you guys have been through a lot. We don't need a question you right away."
Heather then approached the detective. "Detective, what about Mr Eret?"
The detective sighed as he pulled out a phone contacting the hospital where they sent Eret. "The bones in his arms are splintered and he's got facial fracturing. Fortunately there doesn't seem to be any serious brain damage, but his orbital floor has been almost completely destroyed. We have no way of knowing if his eyesight will be impaired once he sealed up."
The detective then looked at the students. "Well, you've heard the man."
"Not good," said Heather as Agnar cried.
"What about Black Hole?" Fishlegs asked.
"There's no need to worry there," the detective assured. "Despite some pretty bad lacerations to the back we are confident that she is going to pull through good as new."
Everyone was relieved to hear that.
"Skullcrusher is mostly exhausted and I'm sure he'll be back on his feet in no time. Recovery Girl's power should be all the treatment he'll needs."
"I'm sure Hiccup was relieved to hear that," said Ragnar. "He must have been worried he jumped into the fray the way he did."
"He was lucky he didn't get himself killed," Snotlout grumbled. "What was he thinking fighting those villains head-on?"
"You're just annoyed that you discover that his father is famous," Astrid smirked.
"Shut up, Astrid," Snotlout grunted.
"Now let's get you back to class," said the detective. Everyone started to make their way towards the bus and the detective turned one of his officers. "Kristoff, I still have some business in the nurse's office. I will leave this to you okay."
"Yes, sir," he saluted.
Snotlout couldn't help but think about what had happened inside, the way that Hiccup propelled himself forward. He didn't see any propulsion from his armour, but how else would he been able to get in front of the villains like that.
"Hey man, we're going back to class now," said Dogsbreath.
Snotlout looked at him. "Yeah, yeah, I heard him."
Inside the principal, Midnight, Sniper and Forge were looking at the damage of the facility.
"We need security improvements," said Dustin. "Perhaps an entire system overhaul."
"Agreed," Sniper nodded.
"I'll get to work right away," Forge nodded. "Though I have no idea how good these improvements will be with a technopath on the loose."
"Not to mention the warp power," said Midnight looking at them. "Those two powers are very rare and can completely change the course of a battle. It's frightening to know that a villain has such a power."
Outside the detective was entering his car to make his way to the school.
"Detective Alvin," said an officer rushing towards him. "Someone who is believed to be involved in this attack has just been apprehended in a wooden area nearby."
Alvin looked up instantly. "Report."
"He has no apparent injuries and seems to be complying with officer commands for now. He hasn't said a word though, when not sure if he can speak."
Alvin assumed that this was Red Death, the villain and that Skullcrusher was able to blow away. He then saw the principal and the others exiting the facility and immediately approached them.
"Principal," he said approaching him. "I would like to investigate every inch of the score just to be safe."
The principal nodded. "Of course, please do. You will have full access to the campus, we definitely need your assistance on this matter."
Alvin nodded and turned his officers. "Teams, proceed as planned."
It was late in the afternoon and Hiccup was now sitting next to the bed which contained his father.
"You really need to take it easy, Skullcrusher," Recovery Girl sighed. "You were really pushing yourself and it could have ended badly for you."
Stoick looked at her. "Gothi, when a villain is threatening my son do you intend for me to stand idle?"
Hiccup sighed. "She's got a point."
Stoick looked at Hiccup. "I'm more curious about how you were able to jump in front of them just like that."
Hiccup shook his head. "I have no idea how I accomplished that. I just felt the urge to help and the moment I stepped forward I found myself in front of them."
Stoick frowned. 'Could it be that he has inherited my superstrength? He doesn't seem to be aware of it and doesn't have full control over it.'
Hiccup looked at his father. "Toothless told me that you were pushing yourself beyond the limits we agreed."
Stoick nodded. "And I think I paid the price for that. I can't be sure yet, but I think I shorten my time-limit with that fight. I'm hoping that I can easily hold the form for an hour."
"That means that you'll lose your powers even sooner than predicted," said Hiccup.
"No point worrying about that," said Stoick as he sat up.
The door opened and Detective Alvin entered.
"Excuse me," he said taking off his hat and looked at Stoick. "Hi, Stoick. It's been a while."
Stoick smiled. "Hello Alvin, I had no idea you were investigating."
Hiccup immediately panicked. "Dad, are you sure it's okay for him to see you?"
"Don't worry it's fine, son," Stoick assured. "This is Alvin Treach, my best friend on the police was now completely trust him."
Alvin chuckled and looked at Hiccup. "If you're not so you can trust me, then I hope you trust my son Ragnar."
Hiccup's eyes widened. "Your Ragnar's dad?"
Alvin nodded. "Aye, but his mother and I never got married. I was busy with police work and she was busy being a hero and Ragnar has spent most of his time with her which is why he's adopted her surname name." He then looked at them businesslike. "Sorry to bother you, but I would really appreciate any information you can give me."
"I can give you video footage of the fighter that might help," said Hiccup. "Toothless records all battles for me so that I can see why I made a mistake."
Alvin stared at him. "That would help immensely."
Stoick looked at him. "Hiccup told me that the students are all fine and Trapster and Black Hole are in stable condition."
"That they are," Alvin nodded. He then looked at Stoick. "If you heroes having to risk your lives your students would never have made it. You three saved that entire class of kids today."
Stoick shook his head. "I'm afraid not seeing the whole picture Alvin. Those students also risk their lives, they fought as hard as us. I don't think there's ever been a group of first years who experience a real fight like this one so early in their training. They not only survived, they learned what it means to be a pro. Those villains made a mistake attacking them, this class is strong and off field with courage and drive. Mark my words, they will become great heroes." He then turned and smiled at Hiccup. "All of them."
They had no way of knowing, but the League of Villains attack on the B.A.R.F was just the beginning. A much bigger incident was on the horizon and they had no idea what was coming and they were just happy to be alive. They had shown that they had potential becoming great heroes, but the worst was yet to come.