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“Five minutes until the raid”, announced Mr. Vlad.
I look down at the target building. It didn’t seem like much; you wouldn’t guess that it's a headquarters for the Paranormal Liberation Front. Though I guess that doesn’t mean anything.
“Finally,”, said Tsuburuba, palming a fist, “Time to get some revenge on those villains.”
Oh, that’s right, Tsuburuba fought villains at the Forest Training Camp. I’m the only one here without any experience fighting them.
I look around to see what other heroes have arrived.
“Mr. Vlad, it doesn’t look like a very large group. Are you sure we’ll be okay clearing the building?”
“There’s other raids going on all over the country, they couldn’t spare the manpower.”
“...So, this was one of the less important ones.”
Mr. Vlad rests his hand on my shoulder. “Don’t worry Monoma, it's not a slight against you, every single raid is necessary to bring an end to the PLF.”
I guess.
I may as well get my quirks ready now. Not much else to do anyway.
Our group contains 3 U.A. staff: Snipe, Hound Dog and Mr. Vlad, and 8 members of Class B: Awase, Kaibara, Kamakiri, Pony, Tsuburuba, Bondo, Rin and me. I don’t have time to speak to the other groups about their quirks.
Speaking of which, whose quirk do I choose? Rin seems like an obvious one, I can protect myself and fire projectiles. Tsuburuba’s is simple to use, so it's another good choice. Heteromorphic quirks make me uncomfortable, so that’s Bondo, Pony and Hound Dog out. Kamakiri’s is a bit redundant with Rin’s, but I’m not sure what else to use. Snipe’s quirk will actively make Rin’s worse and Mr. Vlad made me promise to never copy his quirk. I guess out of the process of elimination my fourth quirk is Awase’s.
“Alright”, said Snipe, “Let's go.”
Snipe fires shots at the guards at the door. Rin and I follow his lead, firing scales at any villains still standing.
The close-range heroes rush down the hill dodging the villains’ projectiles, everything from flames to shrapnel. Hound Dog is the first to make it to the building, ripping one of its doors clean off its hinges, before pushing further inside.
Mr. Vlad follows him, “Listen up! The hallway is narrow, so stick together! I’m going after Hound Dog!”
I turn to the classmates behind me, “Bondo, stay behind me and Tsuburuba, only poke your head out when you can glue a villain.”
Bondo nods, as we set up Solid Air barriers before pushing down a side route.
Instantly, we are bombarded with an onslaught of various quirks. I can’t even see in front of me anymore as the quirks have covered the barriers completely.
“I can’t see anything! Why are there so many villains this way?”
Kaibara pushes up behind me, “I think I see a stairwell at the end of the hall, this must be the path to the roof.”
“Out of the way.” says Kamakiri brandishing his quirk, “Let me put my blades between the slits, so we can push back whoever's in front of the barriers.”
“Alright, Pony, shoot your horns over the barriers to hit anyone that’s left after that.”
“Okay, I can’t see anything right now, but I’ll try.”
We continue pushing down the corridor slowly, until we hit a bump in the floor.
Tsuburuba kicks his barrier, “What is this? I can’t push!”
“I think it's one of the villains, unconscious.”
Tsuburuba pushes up over the body, before setting his barrier on the floor again.
“I got it,” says Awase, welding the villain to the building.
We were almost to the stairwell.
“Keep! Pushing!”
Eventually, we cornered the remaining villains. Bondo glued them to the bottom of the stairwell and the rest of us turned to see what was at the top.
“A door?”
“Kaibara was right, this is the path to the roof.”
We climbed the stairwell and placed our ears on the door.
“There’s probably, like fifty people on the roof.”
“You’re exaggerating Kaibara.”
Rin motioned for us to step back, “Listen, I’m going to kick down the door. When I do, Monoma and Tsuburuba, you both need to create barriers, okay?”
“Okay.”
Rin kicked the door off its hinges, and just as he did, quirks were fired on our position, blocked by the air barriers.
Tsuburuba turned to Rin, “Okay, now what's the plan?”
“Push up! Go from corner to corner!”
We moved forward. Pony shot a villain on our right side, while Rin and I shot one on the left. We pushed up further, allowing Bondo to glue another villain.
The villains were dispersing at this point, having lost too many of their members to fight a direct conflict.
“Break ranks!”
We all split up; I chased a villain to the edge of the roof. He had pointy hair, like Awase but with a much shorter haircut.
“All for One, you failed your promise!” he screamed
“Of course he failed! Have you ever heard of a villain that succeeded? Now come over here before you fall off that edge and die.”
The villain laughed “Die? I am immortal!”
A quirk that makes you immortal? I grab his arm and copy it just in case. Strange, I don’t feel any different.
All of a sudden, I am hoisted into the air. I struggle to look at my attacker, but I see that it is a winged Nomu. The Nomu is flying higher until I can barely see the building anymore.
“Monoma!” I hear Pony scream.
The Nomu drops me and my screams join hers.