Chapter 26: Dire Straits

Shit...!

This is just the worst.

I did not even give the quest notification a glance as I turned on Exoskeleton, the moment the tough armour wrapped itself around me I swapped my powerset to Dangersense, Phase Shift and Frostflare as a deep baritone voice made a bold declaration.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, We are the League of Villains, it may be presumptuous of us but we have invited ourselves in to UA, the Home of Heroes in order to take the life of All Might, the symbol of peace." The class of course freaked out while I stood there wound up like a spring ready to go at any time, I couldn't let my guard down.

"H-how did villains get into UA?" By portals idiot "What are we doing to do?" Stop screaming like cowards "We are going to fight them of course idiots!" Bakugou had the right idea for once.

"No." Aizawa said with a stern tone. "You children will stay back and let the pros handle this. Do not engage." Yeah, no, fuck that.

The shadow fog man spoke again as I roused my internal energy.

"But, since he is not here, we can still settle for killing you all. After all, even heroes if you are heroes in training, you are still golden eggs and losing you all would be a very big loss. It is my job to scatter and torture you all." As he said his misty body started expanding but I did not stand by idly.

"Hakari-!" I did not listen to Aizawa's voice as I dashed with Offensive Form and conjured a frostflare ball and threw it like a softball, making it cut through the air and almost hit the mist man before...

'What the fuck!? I couldn't even see him move!'

The black Nomu suddenly appeared in front and took the frostflare on the arm, freezing a small segment of his large arm before the layer of frost shattered and the broken skin repaired itself in the blink of an eye.

"How ruthless, is that kid really a hero in training Eraser Head?" The hunched man wearing all black and wearing a bunch of disembodied hands all over his body on top of it spoke with a mocking tone as I grit my teeth, bastard...

Shigaraki Tomura.

The fog washed over us despite Thirteen's attempts to suck it all in, I saw Ida grab a few students and dash out with them while I myself dashed out alone to not attract attention. They would be scattered but they were future heroes they would be fine.

But then the moment I had dashed out of the fog-

Danger.

"Kuak!"

I barely had time to respond and brace with my arms before I felt a great force slam into me before being grabbed and lifted into the air, a scaly hand was gripping my stomach and its claws were digging into my armour, I was tackled by the Dragon Nomu and was now being rapidly carried into the sky.

"Mother fucker! " I swung a fist right into its eye as the beast stumbled, it felt like hitting a tank made of meat and just punching its face hurt my hand from the heat, just how hot was this motherfuckers body!? And was he planning to fucking divebomb me? We were already a hundred meters in the air.

"Roar!!!" As it took me even higher, its maw opened to reveal a ball of hellfire formed inside ready to be served to my face hot and ready. In the split second it would take for the flames to leave its mouth I made the decision.

'Polar Channel Flow - Cellular Overdrive!'

Power filled my veins as I slammed my elbow on the Nomu's jaw, diverting it just in time for the fireball to fly out, completely eviscerating two buildings in the fire rescue zone like a fucking missile, his fireballs were incomparably stronger than Bakugou's explosions.

Fuck me dead.

Turning Offensive Form to its maximum I bent my body and kicked the dragon full force in the jaw, making it let go of me and instead, I grabbed it, wrapping my arms around its large throat and putting it in a choke and squeezing with all of my strength as the Nomu flew around uncontrollably and wildly in an attempt to shake me off.

Crash!

I gritted my teeth as it slammed itself and me by proxy into one of the burning buildings, I felt my body start heating up even behind the armour, it was damn hot, both this damn thing's body and the burning building he slammed me into. 

My hope was that it didn't have a lot of lung capacity and did not have higher brain function to devise an actual plan to throw me off. We flew out of the burning area as it still flew around aimlessly in desperation, I felt my arms heat up around his throat, to the point where I started to feel my flesh burn, in response I emitted a little frostflare around my body to ward the heat off.

"Roar!"

It released a sputtering breath of flame like fireworks due to me choking him, I felt some of the sparks land on me feeling like fireworks exploding against bare skin. Then it changed its approach, I felt its claws grab a hold of my arm, pulling on it to free itself with its raw strength as we flew up even higher, nearing the top of the dome.

And unfortunately, even with polar channel flow, I was too weak to fully choke it out due to its absurd strength. So it seems like I will have to spend myself a little, because right now I have to provide support to the others, I saw Aizawa brawling with a bunch of villains and Nomu approaching him from the corner of my vision. That was bad.

I released my hands and used Frostflare to its maximum on the Nomu while placing my hands on its back.

'Burning Glacier!'

A large billowing wave of Frostflare was emitted from my hands and froze the Nomu over completely, with the Nomu a sculpture now we were dropping to the ground, fast, I grabbed one of the Nomu's wings and grabbed onto it like a handle and switched to Defensive Form.

Crash!!!

I felt all of my organs shit themselves as we dropped from hundreds of meters, thankfully the Dragon Nomu's body absorbed most of the impact and shattered into several pieces on impact.

[You have killed the Dragon Nomu +1 Golden Ability Gacha Ticket]

I ignored the notification as my eyes darted around to assess the situation. There were at least 30 villains around, small fry, I could tell at a glance, they were ganging up on two students,

Jiro and Momo, and they were losing badly, Momo's outfit was completely gone above the waist with various objects lying around, Jiro was holding out with soundblasts using her support equipment.

Yeah, if I don't get involved I don't want to know what would happen to two very attractive heroes in training if they get caught by villains, especially one whose very big breasts were swinging around right now.

Just when a burly villain with bladed legs was about to grab Momo who was fending off another villain with a staff I appeared before the villain so fast that he could barely react, my punch easily connected with his shoulder, completely crumpling his arm and sending him flying.

Tilting my body I kicked the other opponent Momo was facing away. Both students turned to me and the villains backed up a bit cautiously.

"Hakari-kun!" "Thank god, finally some backup!" I smiled a bit at the hope on their faces, even though I felt like utter shit I was still at peak performance and definitely at a good enough performance to shit on these bastards.

"Hey, sorry I'm late, got tackled by big and scaly, had to handle him. You guys look a little winded, just let me handle the rest of these mooks." I could feel the ribs he had broken still hurting like a motherfucker, I'm happy he is just shards on the floor now.

"What are you idiots standing around for? He is just one brat, just rush him!" The villains seemed to recover their wits but it wouldn't help them.

"What are you-" I cut her off as I wound my hand back before I covered it in the blue translucent flames of the Frostflare then swung my hand full force while bolstering Frostflare.

'Frostflare Fan!'

A large fan of frost flare swept over the villains in a wide range, while not lethally freezing them, it froze their clothes to their skin, their shoes to the floor, and incapacitated basically everyone it washed over with instant frostbite.

Sighing in exertion I turned the flames off as the villains groaned and moaned from the pain and approached the duo who looked really thankful until Jiro blushed and pointed to Momo's breasts.

"Momo! Your breasts! Your breasts are out! Hakari-kun look away!" Hearing Jiro's words Momo blushed slightly and covered her breasts while I did not listen to her words and still stared at Momo's breasts until the bitter end.

"Oh, I am very sorry for the shameful display Hakari-kun."

I flashed her a thumbs up and my signature smile covered by my exoskeleton.

"No need, on the contrary, I consider it a reward beyond any other. Thank you for your generosity Momo-sama!" Indeed a hefty peek at Momo's hefty Momo's was more than anything of a reward.

"Huh?" "Huuuuuh!? What the fuck are you talking about!?" Momo blushed and tilted her head in what I could only assume was bafflement and Jiro blushed up to the tip of her ears in a beet-red colour.

"Don't worry Jiro, your cute face is a treat too! You look really cute when embarrassed!" Jiro looked almost lightheaded while Momo was still trying to understand what I was saying.

"Is your head alright...?" It sure isn't! The back of my head was tackle-slammed into a building by a half-ton Nomu with super strength. I am having the mother of all concussions here Jack, can't fret over every brain cell.

"Anyway, guys, make sure to keep these guys down, I need to run over and help make sure Sensei doesn't get turned to paste. Take care!" As their face twisted up in slight horror at the imagined sight of Aizwas being turned to pulp I dashed away.

Scaling the border between the zones with quick motions I saw the sight of Sensei throwing hands with Shigaraki, and why the fuck was Shigaraki actually holding his own well enough? He needs help.

And the best assist in the world was here.

My figure blurred once again, appearing before Shigaraki with my leg raised ready to cave his skull in, but just about my leg was about to strike Shigakari managed to guard- no, he easily blocked my kick while only stumbling a bit and skidding across the ground for a meter or two.

What the fuck was this guy made of!?

"So the assist comes huh? How annoying." Shigaraki muttered to himself while Aizawa turned to me.

"Hakari what are you doing here!?"

"You heard him, I am the assist. You can't handle such a crowd alone so don't even think about trying to order me away, I won't listen anyhow." I said while backhanding a villain trying to sneak up to us as Shigaraki circled us slowly.

"Now should be the time." Saying that Shigaraki rushed forward with unexpected speed even rivalling my phase shift right toward me, I could only raise my arms in response, his hand wrapped around my arm and instantly my armour started cracking like chalk, I quickly kicked him away as he did a backflip to mitigate my attack, shit, the armour below my elbow was completely gone.

"As I expected, even a pro like you can't keep their eyes open forever right Eraserhead? Your quirk is not suited for a prolonged fight against multiple oppone-" Shigaraki's eyes narrowed as he was forced to dodge the frosflare I shot toward him.

"Man, you sure have unruly students don't you Eraserhead, how unheroic, attacking someone while they are talking. And man, you sure have a wonderful quirk, don't you? You took down the mini-boss Sensei sent to you in record time. And so ruthless and efficient too. What a pair you two make."

His voice sent shivers down my spine, this guy was seriously unsettling. Then the Nomu started stepping forward, my stomach turned.

My dangersense was blaring. Just looking at him made Dangersense scream louder than it ever screamed before.

"By the way heroes..." 

"...I am not the last boss here. Nomu, take care of him."

"Hakari!!!"

Aizawa sensei screamed, but his cry of fear barely registered in my ears as the Nomu was already in front of me faster than my eyes could track, almost like he teleported before it slapped me away.

The last thing I saw was a watermelon-sized black hand with a resounding crack before everything went black.

A/N: Fun fact, Shigaraki is actually physically hella fast and strong, he was so fast Deku literally couldn't see him move from 20 meters away to right in front of him while in his line of sight and Shigaraki was able to stop Aizawa's elbow dead with only his palm. He also has analysis skills on par with Deku considering he was literally accurately counting seconds on how long Aizawa could keep up his quirk.

Also, Hakari is just not having a great time. First getting ragdolled by Dragon Nomu and now getting bitchslapped by Anti-All Might Nomu. He will need some serious balls and luck to get through this without something truly bad happening.

Hakari has to pull out all of the stops and hidden cards up his sleeve to survive. I wonder how he will manage.

What did you guys think of the chapter hearing your thoughts about the new USJ Arc would really help. Your comments help motivate me and help me improve