The Amazing Deku
Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-Man or My Hero Academia.
Legend:
"I made this song for you" speech
'Still, I love him so much' thoughts or quotes
'I'm going to kill him' Mandalay/Black Cat's Quirk or All for One talking
"CHOCOLATE!" Symbiote/Kuri talking
Lightz: Welcome to another chapter of The Amazing Deku. The last update I became an old man, but this time The Amazing Deku(original) turns 3. Too bad no one will ever remember it. But here, I will conclude our version of the Shie Hassaikai arc.
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Nick4Speed: Izuku is wearing the armor in the cover picture.
Chapter 51: Crooks and Nannies 4
"Nejire-Dan!" Coming down with the company of a dragon's roar, the heroine Nejire-chan dives down for her target.
Turning around, Super Overhaul jumps away as Nejire impacts the cliff, sending dirt and debris in every direction. As he does, eyes open up in the back of his head allowing him to see a stream of flames coming his way. The ground rises just as the fires would douse the monstrous villain in heat, blocking the attack and scorching the earth hit in his place.
Once properly scorched, all of them see nothing in their path but burnt land. Also, there is a hole going underground.
"He's gone underground!" Mandalay says.
As everyone goes on edge – Nejire and Ryukyu return to the skies – Shigaraki crosses his arms in anticipation. 'And now you'll see true fear.'
Pixie-Bob thrusts her hands to the ground. Before she could break apart the earth, a hand reaches up and grasps her face. "Wait." In an instant, the horror on her face shatters and accompanies the rest of her body reduced to cells scattered apart into a Jackson Pollock painting that absorb into Super Overhaul's body.
All eyes widen in horror at the sight they've just witnessed. A familiar terror spreads across Mandalay's face as she sees what is before her. "RYUKO!"
With new mass, Super Overhaul's body expands; those muscles grow with added bulk, his size allows him to reach the same size Ryukyu's dragon form sports, he looks more like a monster than usual. There is also an extra face on him, Pixie-Bob's resting on the back of his neck. Her mouth is agape as moans of turmoil resound throughout. One would liken this to the thing from another world.
"Ryuko…" mutters Tiger, grinding his teeth in rage. He catches Mandalay on her knees in despair. "Shino, stay together! We'll lose more of us at this rate!"
The ground shakes further, rising and falling like a wave throwing them off balance. A platform of dirt ascends, lifting Muscular towards Super Overhaul. The Yakuza's hand stretches out to touch the currently Quirkless villain, overhauling him into his body. Added mass increases his size, making him twice as big as before. He now towers over all present with the height of a three-story building, muscle fibers whipping about from his person like tentacles, and another face added next to Pixie-Bob.
"He's absorbing people one after another!" Nejire comments in shock.
"I WOULDN'T SAY LOSE TO BE MORE ACCURATE." His hand presses against the ground. All of the earth they stand on shatters, leaving them to fall to grim spikes of stone formed below. "WASN'T IT HER THAT SAID I WAS A MONSTER? HOW ABOUT I SHOW YOU HOW MONSTROUS I CAN BE?!"
Nejire and Ryukyu fly down and catch Shino and Tiger. Endeavor uses fire propelled from his feet to float. Given a moment to breathe, Shino forces herself to process what became of Pixie-Bob. Without Overhaul's Quirk, he earth mover can't be saved. It isn't as if it's just a fusion; he broke her to pieces and merged them with himself. 'What can I do?'
All of the earth surrounding them pushes forward at them as square walls. Moving fast, Nejire throws Shino up in the air before thrusting her hands at the two walls about to crush them. Her energy releases into topaz spirals, reducing them to dust and debris.
In the unsettling dust cloud, a figure flies out. The black cat watches as the dragon hero flies in and rips off Super Overhaul's top right arm. Ryukyu takes to the skies crunching down on the arm; its two halves fall from her jaws before she turns around and roars, "Endeavor!"
Super Overhaul turns around from the flying dragon to see the flame hero extending his fingers coated in heat. "Flashfire Fist – Hell Spider!"
In seconds does it take for thin threads of fire to slice through Super Overhaul's remaining arms. The monstrous Yakuza roars in pain, bleeding from the wounds made on his person. And yet, he smiles.
From the holes made, new arms sprout out completely sealing up the wounds. "PATHETIC!"
The heroes gloom at their efforts utterly turning up vain. Even Shino is enraged, having landed on solid ground following her being thrown. 'Endeavor's flames can destroy him without being affected by his Quirk, but he'll overheat if it's not a clear shot.' She doesn't like their odds. They can either wait for back up or abandon Pixie-Bob.
"Shino," speaks a voice from behind. Turning around she sees Momo having risen from her battle against the likes of Hitomi and Kurogiri.
"Creati…" The cat lady faces the monstrosity above them. "We're in trouble. Chisaki has-"
"I know, we saw," Momo replies, having arrived and gotten a look at the horrors of Overhaul's power just seconds ago. Like them, she also couldn't contain her horror; thinking about it, Eri has had that subjected to her every day since Overhaul took her, just to create that batch of Quirk-killing drug. More than just horror, she's also angry thinking about it, which is just the face she shows Shino before walking by her, patting her shoulder. The black slime that is Kuri oozes from her pores around Momo's hand and slides up the rest of her body. 'Kuri, will this work?'
'Only if you join in.'
Biting her teeth, Shino says, "I'll have to hit him with a Quirk-Destruction Bullet to make sure he-"
But before she could finish, the ruby heroine rushes forth. As the heroes continue to battle Super Overhaul, Momo dashes the giant villain. 'Creati, look out!'
The warning is just enough for Momo to stop in her tracks and faces Shigaraki. "You!"
"Several pro heroes struggling," he begins, stretching his hand to her, "and you're jumping in under some pretense that you can turn the tide. No chances."
Before his hand could so much as graze her face, Momo steps to the left avoiding the touch of death. Swiftly the villain turns himself to try again, only to dodge a blade swung upward nicking his chin. Red rains from his face as he steps back while Momo brandishes the sword she wielded prior.
"Black Cat!" Her sword is held to the left. Shino runs up and grabs the blade, allowing the two to switch targets.
"Foolish of you to send a little girl to fight a monster," speaks Shigaraki before he takes a knee.
The black cat narrows her eyes while grinning. "The next generation can't stand on their feet if we're always holding their hands." 'Besides, that little girl comes with a special surprise.'
With Momo, she steps back after another Hell-Spider slicing courtesy of Endeavor dices Super Overhaul's top arms clean off. If she's to perfectly make her move, she needs to make sure he doesn't interfere. Thankfully, he looks to be overheating.
Making her move, Momo leaps forward with the propelling strength of the Symbiote inside of her. The rest of the alien seeps through her pores and costume consuming her and becoming a skin-tight suit hugging her better than her mother. Claws replace her nails and fingers. The only exposed skin is from her neck and up.
Super Overhaul turns around and spots the girl coming her way. "YOU AGAIN?" He swipes his arm across to rip her apart.
Momo thrusts her hand forward, mimicking her boyfriend's method of shooting webs. A strand of black webbing hits dead center in the Yakuza's eyeball, giving just enough of a flinch to completely miss Momo. She shoots another web line to zip forward, landing in his beak mouth.
From there, Momo dives deep into his throat, the symbiote covering her face now as they go further inside.
Having just swallowed someone, Super Overhaul touches his throat wondering. The others look in horror at what they've witnessed.
"Did she just-" Ryukyu comments.
"That stupid girl!" Endeavor shouts.
"Why?!" Tiger mutters.
Nejire, still floating within Overhaul's vicinity, stares. 'Was she wearing black just now?'
Super Overhaul presses down on his stomach, feeling her body pass through the esophagus on the way to the stomach. As she does, he also feels something else seeping inside of him. Whatever it is is wiggling through his body, spreading and consuming each piece of him.
"WHAT IS HAPPENING?!" The black ooze that is Kuri spreads through every cell of Overhaul's body, hugging his skin as closely as the alien does anyone else.
All of the heroes watch in terror at what they see, unable to comprehend what they're seeing. Is this a side effect of his Quirk? Did Creati do something they didn't see coming? Or does that Noumu have another power he's using now?
Endeavor rises high over the butchered battlefield holding his hands up. A fireball forms in his combined palms. "I'm going to wipe you out in one fell swoop."
'Endeavor, wait!' Shino calls, stopping him before he could finish.
All of Kuri's pervasiveness ends once the head gains the Symbiote mask. Wide white eyes open as they snarl, exposing sharp canines and an elongated tongue; a white spider mark forms morph out of the chest. Rather than Super Overhaul covered and merged with the alien, what towers above them is more Kuri having grown to become a full-grown titan.
Even Tomura Shigaraki, having planned this entire scenario in his head in advance, fails to comprehend what is laid above him. "Oh, what the hell is going on?!" he shouts in confused rage. "Am I hallucinating from the experiments?!"
The alien giant retracts the extra appendages before he snarls again, a human scream coming out this time. As Kuri does so, a lump of its skin protrudes from its chest. Said bulge pops open, and a figure falls out landing on the open grass before Tiger.
Taking a knee, he ganders at the nude body. "Ryuko!" Tiger holds her unconscious form in his arms. He touches her neck, feeling a pulse to his relief. "She's okay." Shino sighs with equal consolation, glad that she hasn't lost another friend. Immediately her attention returns to Shigaraki.
Meanwhile, Kuri shrinks in size. Regardless, he expunges another bulge and releases a new person, the naked Muscular landing facedown. His groan comes out in a low fade. Following him is Overhaul, following the trend of being in his birthday suit.
Now more human-sized, Kuri turns his head to Shino, saying, "Get ready!" The last bulge, the biggest one yet, shoots out in an explosive mess with Shigaraki taking a good deal of red liquid coming out of the alien. Hood the Noumu flies out skyward, directly toward the flame hero still charging his shot.
"Perfect." All of his flames spread without his entire body. With a roar, he unleashes the heat in the form of a concentrated beam of fire. "Prominence Burn!"
His solar beam hits the fighting monster, completely consuming it in its prominence. All of that sudden heat awakens the Noumu, but it's already too late; its entire body is engulfed in heat, each of its cells sizzling and steaming like cooking meat. Even with its high-speed regeneration, the conflagration overlaps the recovery speed.
Endeavor presses on with his beam attack. Even as his body overheats and his vision begins to give out, the Flame Hero continues to free his heat screaming as he does so.
Eventually, the fire Quirk finally overpowers the Noumu. Hood fades into the beam through disintegration, leaving absolutely nothing left. The beam subsides, and what remains of the monster scatters into the wind. Its user remains airborne until slowly descending, landing on the ground as the fires of his hero suit are slowly quelled.
With the death of the Noumu, Shino goes over to the fallen Muscular and wastes no time in cuffing him. "Just to make sure."
Kuri returns to Momo's height. The black around her retreats into her body, starting from the head down. Gasping, Momo checks herself hoping nothing changed. "Head, check. Arms and legs, check. Body, check. And I think my eyesight's better."
'You're welcome. Also, your 10 o'clock.' Quickly following his words, Momo turns around to spot the naked Overhaul coming their way.
"YOU!" He extends a hand out to attack her. Of course, with her training and the knowledge of his Quirk, she easily steps back and avoids his deadly touch. "So that's where the symbiote went after Spider-Man stole it! Nine has broken contact with us due to your little stunt!"
Watching the movement of his other hand, Momo draws her shield and slaps Overhaul's hand aside by the back of it. In that same motion, she jabs her shield into his stomach. Saliva splatters across her costume and shield.
"From Kuri, I know your Quirk only works when the palm side of your hands touch something. In that case…" From the palm that isn't carrying the shield, Momo creates a spray. She then spritzes him with a clear mist, hitting him in the face with a full blast. The Yakuza leader cries as he suffers the burning sensation of the combat mace.
"I'll take away your vision, and then…" Momo moves in behind him and delivers a powerful punch with her shield, striking the neck.
The white consumes his eyes, and Overhaul falls over face forward. So ends the Shie Hassaikai.
As Momo takes a breather, Shigaraki finds himself at an impasse. If he uses his Quirk now, he can eradicate them all but lose the Quirk-Destruction Bullet, the manufacturer as well as the lead to Eri. If he runs, he'll still lose them. So long as those two can fly they own an advantage.
"Oh well. I can still find Eri and start from scratch." His hands stretch to the ground.
"Oh no, you don't!" Eyes up, Shigaraki catches Nejire flying above him with her arms charging energy blasts. "Hands up! All of them!"
"… cute." Caught, Shigaraki raises his arms.
"I said all of them!"
"They don't move!"
"Then why do you have them?"
"Looks like the fat lady just sang, Shimura," speaks Shino before drawing her gun and aiming at him, thus cutting Nejire's valid question before it could be answered. "Now, come quietly or lose your Quirk. We have some discussions for you down at the station, you goblin."
The Villain Alliance leader scans his surroundings and takes in his incomprehensible situation; his men have fallen, his Hero Slayer is dead, he's covered in blood or whatever this red stuff is, Endeavor while still down is not out even as he fans himself, the three Wild Wild Pussycats are still active, and that girl has the power of something he never calculated. He needs an opening.
Anything will do.
"Seems like you're in a bit of a pickle for once." Shigaraki listens to the voice in his ear. "But, the master insisted that you succeed, so I'll aid you further. He should be on his way."
"He?" The ground shakes.
"What was that?" asks Momo as she approaches Pixie-Bob, having created a regular light-blue dress for her to just throw on.
A second tremor catches them off guard. The heroes look around trying to pinpoint the source. More earth-shaking proceeds, each one closer and heavier than the last. Their worries add together.
"You called on me to find him, but he cannot be controlled by the likes of you. Just as you and I have supported and looked up to him, he and Kurogiri were made to follow and fight for All for One." The tremors are now accompanied by the sound of trees falling and crashing.
At that, Shigaraki grins as previously falling sweat seem to stop in place. "Looks like master was looking further into the future than I did."
The heroes face the forest behind them, eyes in horror at what is coming into the clearing. A radio can be heard muffled by the earthquakes and crunching. Birds fly away overhead. All manner of destructive noises echoes until the real monster finally arrives.
Stiff with fear, Shino shakes as she holds her gun steady. "What… is… that?"
Endeavor grips his left arm as he stares up at the monster. "I'm gonna need some ice."
A titanic arm rises overhead, leaving them in his towering shadow. "EVERYTHING I DO IS FOR THE LORD."
Seconds before the arm comes colliding down does Shigaraki find himself surrounded by the black ooze. Pixie-Bob summons the earth to blanket and crush, only for the dirt to be smashed, unable to hold it back for even a second.
Pixie-Bob pales as the thing's appearance becomes clearer. "GOOD GRIEF, HE'S NAKED!"
Shino bites her lip. "Ryuko, do something!"
Endeavor turns his flames on. "EVERYONE, GET DOWN!"
Ryukyu flies forward. "If only I can-"
Tiger pulls Shino down. "Don't move!"
Nejire stares blankly. 'Why does he have a radio?'
The fist collides with the earth. Everything within a five-mile radius is hit with a powerful shockwave.
Elsewhere…
It's a dimly lit room. Whatever additional light was left in place is illuminated by the glass of large, human-sized containers nearby. In this obvious laboratory, black ink explodes into existence. Shigaraki's body forms from it, landing on his two feet properly.
Unlike before, he breathes heavily touching his chest. His other hand rips away the hand on his face. He then peels off his face, revealing his much older, cleaner, real face underneath and the malice left in its place. "Such a thing happened in such a short amount of time, removing such planned works years in the making!"
"How sad it is." That same voice is heard deeper in the lab. Over by the largest glass case, Shigaraki, no, Shimura sees the man sitting at the desk working on a monitor. "Your sure-fire ace in the hole has been lost to the enemy. Now you're just left with an army. My army."
His red eyes focus on the man. His anger starts to overcome him. "Your army?"
"Your formula was able to push these High-End Noumu to their limits, but that was all you contributed." The man continues to type. "They were originally my design, to create an army of obedient killing machines for the one who I believed in. I would be remiss to hand this over to someone who wallows in the despair he's created."
So livid, so lively, so lifted by vengeance is Shimura at this very moment. Years of therapy are slowly breaking apart in the face of his pain and anger. Sadly, he can do nothing about it for the time being.
"It is your fault for focusing so much on Spider-Man that you let these travesties happen. Had you ordered him killed from the beginning you wouldn't have lost so much revenue. You must have realized it at one point, and yet you still put too much focus on him." The doctor turns around now in his revolving chair, his lap holding what looks to be a small little Noumu. "Honestly, it is beyond what I can fathom to know that you are intentionally burdening yourself with something that has nothing to do with your life goal. You were so focused and decisive before that child arrived; now he's all you can think of, isn't it?"
His eyebrows furrow. "Child? What do you mean by that?"
"None of your business." The doctor turns back around in his seat. "Now if you don't mind, you must regain focus on what's truly important. We're shorthanded on men, and you haven't even awoken to your true power yet."
Left there silent in the dark, the Villain Alliance leader growls through his teeth as he accepts his position now. He's lost so many men after getting this far, some more valuable than others. And with their words, he'll have lost all of his reputation and credibility, not to mention his company and files, by tomorrow morning. Toga will need to be informed right away.
And yet, he's still thinking of what he will do with Spider-Man – boy if what Ujiko said is true. Why? He has planned on stealing his DNA and using him to improve his Spider-Slayers. But, thinking about it now he could have just killed him.
'"You're going to support the Villain Alliance, dead or alive."' That should have been the closing point; he should have just killed him. Instead, he tried to win him over. Even though he sought to go and murder him, did he truly wish to kill him? Was there more?
Was something inside of him telling him not to kill Spider-Man? Or someone?
Well, he can worry about that later. He's got all this alien blood to wash off... wait, it's gone?
Back to The Action…
Out in the forest, the ground shifts away around a huge dome. In its epicenter are the heroes who have battled the villains shortly before that titan's arrival. Pixie-Bob pulls her hand away from the ground, sighing with relief.
"Is everyone okay?" she asks, gazing back at the others she had to protect. Ryukyu in her human form is with Nejire having collected Overhaul. Shino and Tiger have Muscular and Chronostasis pinned. Momo has Hitomi wrapped in black webbing, a foot over the top of her body. Endeavor has Kurogiri in hand.
"Is that thing gone?" asks the flame hero.
Nejire takes flight hovering over the scene. Looking around, she finds nothing but destruction. "It's gone."
Out in the distance, police sirens can be heard. "Phew, the cavalry," says Shino, just before she feels Muscular shifting. A swift strike with her heel sends him back to sleep. Through her Quirk, she calls out, 'Police! Anyone! We're over here!'
Endeavor looks over at Momo. "Hey, craft girl, what time is it?"
Momo touches the glasses on her face, updating her on the time. "11:23 am."
Sighing, the flame hero speaks, "Then it's settled; on September 26 at 11:23 am, the Shie Hassaikai leader Kai Chisaki codename Overhaul, the Carnal Murderer Muscular, and the Villain Alliance associate member Kurogiri have been captured."
Our heroes relax as the sirens get closer. The mission's finally over.
Kei: Phew. That was... pretty short. What the hell?!
Wanda: According to Lightz, he wanted this chapter to focus completely on the Hideout Raid and the battle with Overhaul. Which reminds me; I kind of wish we went the other way.
Kei: Another way?
Wanda: Super Overhaul was going to overhaul Momo and Kuri, breaking them apart and fusing them with him, thus allowing the Symbiote to easily consume his body and take over. Why didn't we do that?
Kei: Because that would be kind of dark.
Wanda: Hasn't stopped us before!
Kei: Also, the regeneration of the Symbiotes varies too much. Only Carnage can restore a host from a pool of DNA from what we've looked up.